Emulating a dumb terminal?
 

Ive seen several posts on how to USE dumb terminals to access a server, but I need to do something a bit different. I have a legacy "network controller" for an RF network, and it's hooked up to a debian linux server through the serial ports like so:

/dev/ttyS0 - the "host" line, where it feeds information from the RF network into the server. i have a perl daemon to handle this.

/dev/ttyS1 - the "console" line, where normally one would hook up a dumb terminal to access the configuration menu.

now, I need something I can run ON the server to connect TO this controller through /dev/ttyS1, so i can configure it. and, there isnt an xserver installed on this linux machine (its a webserver, so there wouldnt normally be any reason to have an xserver).

so a terminal emulator, i suppose is what I need. I had it previously connected to a win32 box, and communicated with it via a Wyse50/60 emulator. the terminal types it officially supports are:

• IBM 3101
• ADM 3/5
• ADM 31/32/42
• Hazeltine
• Televideo
• DEC VT100 (though i was NEVER able to get it to work with a VT100 emulator on a win32 box)

i've done a lot of google searching and havent found anything like what i need here...if anyone could help, i would greatly appreciate it.

Read the man pages on agetty. That will help you do what you want to do

well, if i'm reading the manpages correctly, agetty and the like allow to log into a linux server from outside sources...i need to get INTO the RF controller FROM the linux server. i need something to run on the server to emulate a dumb terminal so i can get INTO the controller.